Recovering from catastrophic disaster in Asia

• Other Authors: Waugh, William L. (Editor), Han, Ziqiang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
• Series: Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 18.
• Subjects: Natural disasters > Asia.; Disaster relief > Asia.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781786352958; 9781787148932
• ISSN: 2040-7262 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S2040-7262201618
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages).

Volume 18 of the Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series looks at how cities and countries recover from catastrophic disasters with a specific focus on Asia. Asia has experienced devastating disasters over the centuries. Proximity to the seismically active Ring of Fire and other...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Disaster recovery in Asia: an introduction
• Social capital and changes in post-disaster recovery process: observations from China after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
• Recovering from prolonged negative destination images in post-disaster Northern Japan
• Restoration of communities following the Great East Japan disaster: The transformation of mutual help networks through the eyes of the victims
• Lessons from disaster recovery in Japan through case studies of four earthquakes
• Citizen participation in the disaster reconstruction process: lessons from the Great East Japan earthquake
• Social vulnerability in disasters: immigrant and refugee experiences in Canterbury and Tohoku
• Disaster exceptionalism in India: The view from below
• The 2015 Nepal earthquake: from rescue to reconstruction
• International humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery in Asia
• Index.